Argument-passing may refer to two different things: (1) the process of providing a program being started with some initial pieces of information (the arguments) on its command line; (2) the process of providing the initial values (the arguments) for the parameters of a function when it is called.
Questions tagged [argument-passing]
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JavaScript variable number of arguments to function
Is there a way to allow "unlimited" vars for a function in JavaScript?
Example:
load(var1, var2, var3, var4, var5, etc...)
load(var1)
Timo
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Pass in an array of Deferreds to $.when()
Here's an contrived example of what's going on: http://jsfiddle.net/adamjford/YNGcm/20/
HTML:
Click me!
JavaScript:
function getSomeDeferredStuff() {
var deferreds = [];
var i = 1;
for (i = 1; i <= 10; i++)…
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Argument passing strategy - environment variables vs. command line
Most of the applications we developers write need to be externally parametrized at startup. We pass file paths, pipe names, TCP/IP addresses etc. So far I've been using command line to pass these to the appplication being launched. I had to parse…
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How to convert a command-line argument to int?
I need to get an argument and convert it to an int. Here is my code so far:
#include
using namespace std;
int main(int argc,int argvx[]) {
int i=1;
int answer = 23;
int temp;
// decode arguments
if(argc < 2) {
…
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How to pass arguments to functions by the click of button in PyQt?
I want to pass the arguments to a function when I click the button. What should I add to this line button.connect(button, QtCore.SIGNAL('clicked()'), calluser(name)) so it will pass the value to the function:
def calluser(name):
print name
def…
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Is there a difference between main(String args[]) and main(String[] args)?
Is there a difference between:
public void main(String args[]) { ... }
and
public void main(String[] args) { ... }
I don't believe so, but I am wondering.
Jérôme Verstrynge
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Postgres integer arrays as parameters?
I understand that in Postgres pure, you can pass an integer array into a function but that this isn't supported in the .NET data provider Npgsql.
I currently have a DbCommand into which I load a call to a stored proc, add in a parameter and execute…
Tristan Warner-Smith
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Function pointer as an argument
Is it possible to pass a function pointer as an argument to a function in C?
If so, how would I declare and define a function which takes a function pointer as an argument?
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Elegant way to pass multiple arguments to a function
I've got a function which looks like this:
bool generate_script (bool net, bool tv, bool phone,
std::string clientsID,
std::string password,
int index, std::string number,
…
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Is there a way to use two '...' statements in a function in R?
I want to write a function that calls both plot() and legend() and it would be ideal if the user could specify a number of additional arguments that are then passed through to either plot() or legend(). I know I can achieve this for one of the two…
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Passing an instance method as argument in PHP
I would like to create a Listener class
class Listener {
var $listeners = array();
public function add(callable $function) {
$this->listeners[] = $function;
}
public function fire() {
foreach($this->listeners as…
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Passing arguments django signals - post_save/pre_save
I am working on a notification app in Django 1.6 and I want to pass additional arguments to Django signals such as post_save. I tried to use partial from functools but no luck.
from functools import partial
post_save.connect(
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Is it a good idea to use a switch with fallthrough to handle default arguments in Javascript?
I have recently learned that you can use a neat switch statement with fallthrough to set default argument values in Javascript:
function myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3) {
//replace unpassed arguments with their defaults:
switch (arguments.length)…
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Remove last argument from argument list of shell script (bash)
This question concerns a bash script that is run in automator osx. I am using automator actions to get and filter a bunch of file references from the finder. Then I append to that list the name of the parent folder, also via an automator action.…
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pass arguments between shell scripts but retain quotes
How do I pass all the arguments of one shell script into another? I have tried $*, but as I expected, that does not work if you have quoted arguments.
Example:
$ cat script1.sh
#! /bin/sh
./script2.sh $*
$ cat script2.sh
#! /bin/sh
echo $1
echo…
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